David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com> wrote:> Whereas most SGI, Sun, and other vendor's higher end cards allows you> to arbitrarily stop a renderer mid-place, save the card state, and> restore the card state another thread has....> Commodity PCI/AGI 3D graphics cards cannot do this, which is why the> userland locking solution exists at all. However for cards that can do> the above, this is what people want.